The Senate Banking Committee is predicted to vote Tuesday on whether or not to advance the nomination of Jerome Powell, President Trump’s choose to guide the Federal Reserve.

If Powell is confirmed by the Senate panel, his nomination will advance to the Senate for a full vote. It is unclear when that vote could be scheduled.

President Trump nominated Powell early final month to switch Chairwoman JanetYellen when her four-year time period expires on February three.

A Fed governor since 2012 and a former Treasury official below the George W. Bush administration, Powell is seen as a non-controversial choose for the function and is extensively anticipated to safe the job.

“We count on an uncomplicated committee vote, regardless of some Democratic opposition,” Ian Katz, an analyst at coverage analysis agency Capital Alpha Companions wrote in a word to shoppers. “Full Senate approval by early February, when Janet Yellen’s time period ends, seems seemingly at this level.”

Throughout Powell’s first affirmation listening to earlier than the Senate final week, there wasrobust assist for the president’s selection.

“Governor Powell has proved he’s certified to guide the Fed,” Sen. Mike Crapo, a Republican from Idaho and chairman of the committee, mentioned on the listening to.

Democrats voted practically unanimously to substantiate Powellwhen President Obama nominated him to the Fed board in 2012 after which once more in 2014. Now, some are elevating questionsabout whether or not he could be too aggressive in dialing again post-crisisreforms.

Conversely, Republicans have supplied few, if any, criticisms of Powell this time round.

His nomination below Obama drew opposition from Republicans like former Sen. David Vitter, who tried to delay Powell’s affirmation course of, arguing he could be a ‘rubber stamp’ for Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s insurance policies.

Sen. Dean Heller, a Republican from Nevada, informed Powell finally week’s listening to he was making an attempt to get to sure, after voting in opposition to him twicethroughout the Obama years.

Powell, 64, has affirmed his management on the Fed would characterize continuity along with his predecessors:Yellen and Bernanke. He has additionally lauded the central financial institution’s affected person method in regularly transferring rates of interest increased and slowly unwinding its $four.5 trillion stability sheet.

Powell has performed a key function in serving to to form the Fed’s insurance policies during the last 5 years, and has been a constant ally of Yellen.

The Fed governor has additionally left the door open to think about “acceptable methods” to ease guidelines on banks, whereas nonetheless preserving core items of the 2010 Dodd-Frank regulatoryregulation, together with annual stress checks and robust capital necessities.

On the affirmation listening to final week, Powell endorsed a GOP plan by senators to offer regulatory relief to financial institutions, whereas agreeing it will nonetheless give latitude to the Fed to oversee and regulate banks as wanted.

In April, the Fed tapped Powell to function the brand new level man overseeing how Wall Avenue banks are regulated after Daniel Tarullo, the central financial institution’s regulatory czar, stepped down. Tarullo held the place for the previous eight years.

Powell spent a lot of his profession in funding banking and personal fairness earlier than becoming a member of the Fed.

A Princeton graduate, he was a lawyer in New York earlier than he joined the funding financial institution Dillon, Learn & Co. in 1984. He stayed there till he joined the Treasury Division in 1990. After he left Treasury, he turned a associate in 1997 at The Carlyle Group(CG), the non-public fairness and asset administration big. He left Carlyle in 2005.

Ought to he be confirmed, Powell wouldn’t solely be the primary formerfunding banker to go the Fed, however he’d even be the primary particular person who is just not an economist to take the helm in additional than 40 years.

–CNNMoney’s Patrick Gillespie and Chris Isidore contributed to this report.